A critical appreciation of the work of Derek Walcott's Caribbean phase (1946-81). It examines Walcott's use of metaphor, by which he focuses on the juxtaposition of his concern with a regional history of negation and his immersion in the Western literary and cultural tradition of the colonizer.再讀一些...

Introduction : the Caribbean focus --
Apprenticeship : juvenilia to In a green night --
Abandoning dead metaphors : The castaway and The gulf --
Revolutionary creed, race, politics and society --
Another life : alter/native metaphors in fulfilment --
Society and nationhood in the Caribbean : towards another life.